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Incorrect Authorization

CVE-2017-4946

High
7.8/10

Summary

The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Authorization is a security mechanism performed by an application to grant or deny access to the requested resources by verifying the privileges of the user. When an application lacks effective authorization mechanisms, it enables unauthorized users to gain unintended privileges and illegitimate access to resources. Such a vulnerability may result in exposure of sensitive information, denial of service, arbitrary code execution, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published